[conspire] systemd

[Ruben Safir]

On 02/17/2015 03:37 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
>> http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_linuxes/Startup_and_shutdown/systemd.shtml
> 
> My mother wasn't Internet-savvy enough to dispense the advice 'Rick, never
> just post bare URLs to mailing lists or newsgroups, because it makes you
> look like either a spammer or a short-attention-span kiddie who thinks
> his time is too precious to explain _why_ something is interesting --
> and in either case then ignored.'  But that's the sort of wise thing Mom
> _would_ have said.
> 
> 

Ah - there would be one more reason, not to be disrespectful of your
Mom, a wonderful women as can be seen from the results of her efforts.

Sometimes, I might post a URL without comment because I want to allow
someone to experience that article or information without filtering it
through my commentary and opinions.  It is stronger if someone reads
something and becomes educated on a topic on their own.

Somethings can stand on their own two feet.

> 
>> systemd is in the news again
>>
>> http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/15/1959209/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system
> 
> See, now there you _almost_ bother to mention why the URL is worth the
> visit.  Go, Ruben!  That was almost useful.
> 
> I have faith that you can learn clue, Ruben.  It's part of my general
> wackily naive optimism about progress and the ability of Joe User to
> eventually learn something -- despite frequrent reminders that nobody
> bothers to pay attention.
> 
> 
> Anyway:
> 
> 1.  Slashdot?  Really?
> 


Really.

> 2.  Author Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton does have a brain, but has a
> long history as a bit of a loon.  No, let me correct that:  As a loon.  
> I don't think I want to even summarise his crazy-ass and pointless fight
> with everyone else involved in the Samba project, for fear of saying
> something I'd have to defend in court.
> 
> 2.  Author describes what looks like days of painstaking work to find a
> way to remove and do without... no, not systemd itself.  That's actually
> really simple on any current branch of Debian.  No, Leighton goes all
> mad scientist at great length to get rid of libsystemd0.
> 
> A library.  A library that goes completely unused if you have installed
> one of the other two supported init packages.  I'm not sure what is more
> scary: the possibility that Leighton doesn't know the irrelevance of
> this outcome, or the possiblity that he does.
> 


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